MATRIXSYNTH: Clifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an agile mind


Monday, March 31, 2008

Clifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an agile mind


Synth content comes in at 6:30 but do watch this from the beginning.
Great stuff. If you appreciate and respect Robert Moog, DO NOT miss this video.
Thanks goes to Ben for sending this one in.
TED Talks page with more info on the talk and Clifford Stoll.
Clifford Stoll website. Clifford Stoll on Wikipedia.
Video description:
"Clifford Stoll could talk about the atmosphere of Jupiter. Or hunting KGB hackers. Or Klein bottles, computers in classrooms, the future. But he's not going to. Which is fine, because it would be criminal to confine a man with interests as multifarious as Stoll's to give a talk on any one topic. Instead, he simply captivates his audience with a wildly energetic sprinkling of anecdotes, observations, asides -- and even a science experiment. After all, by his own definition, he's a scientist: 'Once I do something, I want to do something else.'"

3 comments:

  1. that man is my hero.

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  2. His weirdness is somewhat annoying and forced.

    It distracts from his message, which is appealing. I completely agree with him on getting computers out of schools.

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  3. The part where he measures the wavelength of the sine wave with the microphone is genius.

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